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Women and Ethnic Language Maintenance: A Study of Italian Immigrant Family Triads in Saint-Leonard, Montreal
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Women and Ethnic Language Maintenance: A Study of Italian Immigrant Family Triads in Saint-Leonard, Montreal
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Over ninety percent of post-Second World War Italian immigrants to Quebec settled on the Island of Montreal, with the highest concentration (since 1971) in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Leonard. This thesis studies the role of Italian women in Saint Leonard in the inter-generational process of ethnic language maintenance. The author acknowledges that the three-generation language shift model suggests that by the third generation, the dominant language of Saint-Leonard (French) will be this Italian generation's mother tongue. However, she notes, the literature cites several factors as countering linguistic assimilation, such as residential concentration and intramarriage. Women have consistently shown higher retention rates than men yet, the author points out, they have received little attention in the intergenerational process. In addition, research on the third generation is still recent and focuses at macro levels. The objective of her thesis is to investigate the role of Italian women in Saint-Leonard in the inter-generational process of ethnic language maintenance and to identify the forces at work, specifically within the home domain, that encourage the retention of the ethnic language.
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Master's Thesis
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Concordia University
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Montreal
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2003
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xiii-214p.
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en
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Venditti, Rosa L. “Women and Ethnic Language Maintenance: A Study of Italian Immigrant Family Triads in Saint-Leonard, Montreal.” Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2003. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMG/TC-QMG-2325.pdf.
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